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Winter's alarmingly low snowpack offers glimpse of changing water rhythm in the western US

Winter's alarmingly low snowpack offers glimpse of changing water rhythm in the western US

Streamflows in the West—relied on for drinking water and to support farms—once followed a predictable arc as winter snow melted, but rising temperatures are changing that. Read from CU expert Imtiaz Rangwala on The Conversation.

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